WO2011043598A2 - Method and apparatus for uplink transmission in a multi-antenna system - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided are a method and apparatus for uplink transmission in a multi-antenna system. A terminal transmits a plurality of first transmission symbols via a plurality of antennas using a first spatial processing performed on the first transmission symbols, and transmits a plurality of second transmission symbols via a plurality of antennas using a second spatial processing performed on the second transmission symbols. At least one column or at least one row of a first spatial processing matrix used in the first spatial processing is switched to form a second SFBC matrix used in the second spatial processing. According to the present invention, peak-to-average power (PAPR)/cubic metric (CM) ratio can be kept at a low level, and imbalanced transmission power among antennas can be evened out.

Description

Method and device for uplink transmission in multi-antenna system

The present invention relates to wireless communication, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for uplink transmission in a wireless communication system.

Long term evolution (LTE), based on the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Technical Specification (TS) Release 8, is a leading next-generation mobile communication standard.

As disclosed in 3GPP TS 36.211 V8.7.0 (2009-05) "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical Channels and Modulation (Release 8)", the physical channel in LTE is a downlink channel PDSCH (Physical Downlink) It may be divided into a shared channel (PDCCH), a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) which are uplink channels.

In the uplink channel, a PAPR (Peak-to-Average Power Ratio) / CM (cubic metric) characteristic is important for power management of the UE. For long latency and low battery consumption, the uplink channel needs to maintain low PAPR / CM characteristics. To this end, LTE uses a sequence having low PAPR / CM characteristics, such as a Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence, for the uplink control channel.

However, PAPR / CM characteristics of an uplink channel may be deteriorated due to the introduction of new technologies such as a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology and a multi-carrier technology.

There is a need for an uplink transmission method and apparatus that maintains low PAPR / CM characteristics.

An object of the present invention is to provide an uplink transmission method and apparatus for switching spatial processing in a multi-antenna system.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an uplink transmission method and apparatus for reducing transmission power imbalance between antennas.

In one aspect, an uplink transmission method in a multiple antenna system is provided. The method includes transmitting through a plurality of antennas using first spatial processing to a plurality of first transmission symbols, and transmitting through the plurality of antennas using a second spatial processing to a plurality of second transmission symbols. And the spatial processing matrix used for the second spatial processing is configured by switching at least one row or at least one column of the first spatial processing matrix used for the first spatial processing.

The first and second spatial processes may be Space-Frequency Block Code (SFBC), and the first and second spatial processes may be SFBC matrices.

The first and second spatial processing may be a space-code block code (SCBC), and the first and second spatial processing matrix may be an SCBC matrix.

The method further includes modulating encoded bits to generate a plurality of modulation symbols, wherein the plurality of first transmission symbols and the plurality of second transmission symbols may be the plurality of modulation symbols.

The plurality of first transmission symbols and the plurality of second transmission symbols may be transmitted on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).

The method modulates the encoded bits to produce a plurality of modulation symbols, and the plurality of modulation symbols are spread Fourier transfomr (DFT) to spread the plurality of first transmission symbols and the plurality of second transmission symbols. The method may further include generating.

The plurality of first transmission symbols and the plurality of second transmission symbols may be independently DFT.

The plurality of first transmission symbols and the plurality of second transmission symbols may be transmitted on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

In another aspect, the terminal includes an RF unit for transmitting and receiving a radio signal, and a processor coupled to the RF unit, the processor processes a plurality of first transmission symbols using a first spatial processing, and Process a plurality of second transmission symbols using second spatial processing, wherein the second spatial processing matrix used for the second spatial processing is at least one row of a first spatial processing matrix used for the first spatial processing or It is configured by switching at least one column.

It can maintain low PAPR / CM characteristics and average the unbalanced transmission power between antennas.

1 shows a structure of a radio frame and a downlink subframe in 3GPP LTE.

2 shows an example of an uplink subframe in 3GPP LTE.

3 shows PUCCH format 1 in a normal CP in 3GPP LTE.

4 shows PUCCH format 1 in an extended CP in 3GPP LTE.

5 shows an example of performing HARQ.

6 shows PUCCH format 2 in normal CP in 3GPP LTE.

7 shows PUCCH format 2 in an extended CP in 3GPP LTE.

8 shows an example of OSRSM.

9 shows an example of an MSM in a single antenna.

10 is a block diagram illustrating PUCCH transmission using resource selection.

11 shows a representation of bits when two resources are allocated.

12 shows the appearance according to the mapping scheme of Table 5.

13 shows the appearance according to the mapping method of Table 7.

14 is a block diagram of a transmitter implementing a Space-Code Block Code (SCBC).

15 shows an example of SCBC application.

16 shows an example of an asymmetric multicarrier.

17 shows transmission of PUCCH format 2 using three resources in an MSM.

18 shows an example of transmission of PUCCH format 2 using three resources in SCBC.

19 shows another example of transmission of PUCCH format 2 using three resources in SCBC.

20 shows another example of transmission of PUCCH format 2 using three resources in SCBC.

FIG. 21 shows 1-DFT diffusion of length 12. FIG.

22 shows an example in which SFBC is applied to a PUCCH.

23 shows an example of the proposed switched SFBC.

24 is an example of applying the proposed spatial processing switching to the OSRSM of FIG.

FIG. 25 illustrates an example of applying the proposed switching to the SCBC of FIG. 15.

FIG. 26 is an example of applying the proposed switching to the embodiment of FIG. 18.

27 and 28 are graphs showing the effect of the present invention.

29 is a block diagram illustrating a transmitter in which an embodiment of the present invention is implemented.

30 is a block diagram showing a terminal implemented embodiment of the present invention.

31 is a block diagram illustrating a signal processing apparatus for performing SC-FDMA.

32 shows an example of subcarrier mapping.

33 shows another example of subcarrier mapping.

34 is a block diagram illustrating a signal processing apparatus for performing clustered SC-FDMA.

35 is a block diagram illustrating another example of a signal processing apparatus.

36 is a block diagram illustrating another example of a signal processing apparatus.

The user equipment (UE) may be fixed or mobile, and may include a mobile station (MS), a mobile terminal (MT), a user terminal (UT), a subscriber station (SS), a wireless device, and a personal digital assistant (PDA). It may be called other terms such as digital assistant, wireless modem, handheld device.

A base station generally refers to a fixed station communicating with a terminal, and may be referred to as other terms such as an evolved-NodeB (eNB), a base transceiver system (BTS), and an access point.

Each base station provides communication services for a particular geographic area (commonly called a cell). The cell can in turn be divided into a number of regions (called sectors).

1 shows a structure of a radio frame and a downlink subframe in 3GPP LTE. It may be referred to section 6 of 3GPP TS 36.211 V8.7.0 (2009-05) "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical Channels and Modulation (Release 8)".

A radio frame consists of 10 subframes, and one subframe consists of two slots. The time it takes for one subframe to be transmitted is called a transmission time interval (TTI). For example, one subframe may have a length of 1 ms and one slot may have a length of 0.5 ms.

One slot may include a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the time domain. The OFDM symbol is merely for representing one symbol period in the time domain, and is not limited to the multiple access scheme or the name. For example, the OFDM symbol may be called another name such as a single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbol, a symbol period, and the like.

One slot includes 7 OFDM symbols as an example, but the number of OFDM symbols included in one slot may vary according to the length of a cyclic prefix (CP). According to 3GPP TS 36.211 V8.7.0, one slot in a normal CP includes 7 OFDM symbols, and one slot in an extended CP includes 6 OFDM symbols.

A resource block (RB) is a resource allocation unit and includes a plurality of subcarriers in one slot. For example, if one slot includes 7 OFDM symbols in the time domain and the resource block includes 12 subcarriers in the frequency domain, one resource block includes 7 × 12 resource elements (REs). It may include.

The DL (downlink) subframe is divided into a control region and a data region in the time domain. The control region includes up to three OFDM symbols preceding the first slot in the subframe, but the number of OFDM symbols included in the control region may be changed. PDCCH and other control channels are allocated to the control region, and PDSCH is allocated to the data region.

As disclosed in 3GPP TS 36.211 V8.7.0, in 3GPP LTE, a physical channel is a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), a physical downlink shared channel (PUSCH), a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and a physical channel (PCFICH). It may be divided into a Control Format Indicator Channel (PHICH), a Physical Hybrid-ARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH), and a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH).

The PCFICH transmitted in the first OFDM symbol of a subframe carries a control format indicator (CFI) regarding the number of OFDM symbols (that is, the size of the control region) used for transmission of control channels in the subframe. The terminal first receives the CFI on the PCFICH, and then monitors the PDCCH.

The PHICH carries a positive-acknowledgement (ACK) / negative-acknowledgement (ACK) signal for an uplink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). The ACK / NACK signal for UL (uplink) data on the PUSCH transmitted by the UE is transmitted on the PHICH.

Control information transmitted through the PDCCH is called downlink control information (DCI). DCI is a resource allocation of PDSCH (also called DL grant), a PUSCH resource allocation (also called UL grant), a set of transmit power control commands for individual UEs in any UE group. And / or activation of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

The control region in the downlink subframe includes a plurality of control channel elements (CCEs). The CCE is a logical allocation unit used to provide a coding rate according to the state of a radio channel to a PDCCH and corresponds to a plurality of resource element groups (REGs). The format of the PDCCH and the number of bits of the PDCCH are determined according to the correlation between the number of CCEs and the coding rate provided by the CCEs.

2 shows an example of an uplink subframe in 3GPP LTE. The uplink subframe may be divided into a control region to which a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) carrying uplink control information is allocated and a data region to which a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) carrying uplink data is allocated.

PUCCH for one UE is allocated to a resource block pair in a subframe. Resource blocks belonging to a resource block pair occupy different subcarriers in each of a first slot and a second slot. m is a location index indicating a logical frequency domain location of a resource block pair allocated to a PUCCH in a subframe. It is shown that a resource block having the same m value occupies different subcarriers in two slots.

According to 3GPP TS 36.211 V8.7.0, PUCCH supports multiple formats. A PUCCH having a different number of bits per subframe may be used according to a modulation scheme dependent on the PUCCH format.

Table 1 below shows an example of a modulation scheme and the number of bits per subframe according to the PUCCH format.

Table 1

PUCCH Format	Modulation Scheme	Number of Bits per subframe
One	N / A	N / A
1a	BPSK	One
1b	QPSK		2
2	QPSK	20
2a	QPSK + BPSK	21
2b	QPSK + BPSK	22

PUCCH format 1 is used for transmission of SR (Scheduling Request), PUCCH format 1a / 1b is used for transmission of ACK / NACK signal for HARQ, PUCCH format 2 is used for transmission of CQI, PUCCH format 2a / 2b is used for CQI and Used for simultaneous transmission of ACK / NACK signals. PUCCH format 1a / 1b is used when transmitting only the ACK / NACK signal in the subframe, and PUCCH format 1 is used when the SR is transmitted alone. When transmitting SR and ACK / NACK at the same time, PUCCH format 1 is used, and an ACK / NACK signal is modulated and transmitted on a resource allocated to the SR.

All PUCCH formats use a cyclic shift (CS) of the sequence in each OFDM symbol. The cyclically shifted sequence is generated by cyclically shifting a base sequence by a specific cyclic shift amount. The specific CS amount is indicated by the cyclic shift index (CS index).

An example of defining the basic sequence r _u (n) is as follows.

Equation 1

Where u is the root index, n is the element index, and 0≤n≤N-1, and N is the length of the base sequence. b (n) is defined in section 5.5 of 3GPP TS 36.211 V8.7.0.

The length of the sequence is equal to the number of elements included in the sequence. u may be determined by a cell identifier (ID), a slot number in a radio frame, or the like. When the base sequence is mapped to one resource block in the frequency domain, the length N of the base sequence is 12 since one resource block includes 12 subcarriers. Different base sequences define different base sequences.

The cyclically shifted sequence r (n, I _cs ) may be generated by cyclically shifting the basic sequence r (n) as shown in the following equation.

Equation 2

Here, I _cs is a cyclic shift index indicating the CS amount (0 ≦ I _cs ≦ N-1).

Hereinafter, the available cyclic shift index of the base sequence refers to a cyclic shift index derived from the base sequence according to the CS interval (CS interval). For example, if the length of the base sequence is 12 and the CS interval is 1, the total number of available cyclic shift indices of the base sequence is 12. Alternatively, if the length of the base sequence is 12 and the CS interval is 2, the total number of available cyclic shift indices of the base sequence is six.

In the following, the modulation symbol represents a complex-valued symbol representing the position on the constellation of the corresponding encoded bit. However, depending on the implementation manner, the modulation symbol may be represented in various forms.

Now, transmission of HARQ ACK / NACK signals in PUCCH format 1 / 1a / 1b (hereinafter, collectively referred to as PUCCH format 1) will be described.

FIG. 3 shows PUCCH format 1 in normal CP in 3GPP LTE, and FIG. 4 shows PUCCH format 1 in extended CP in 3GPP LTE. In the normal CP and the extended CP, the number of OFDM symbols included in each slot is different. Only the position and the number of reference signals RS are different, and the structure of ACK / NACK transmission is the same.

Modulation symbol d (0) is generated by modulating a 2-bit ACK / NACK signal with Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK). QPSK modulation is only an example, and various modulation schemes such as binary phase shift keying (BPSK) or quadrature amplitude modulation (m-QAM) may be used.

According to PUCCH format 1, since there are five OFDM symbols for transmitting an ACK / NACK signal in one slot in a normal CP or an extended CP, a total of 10 OFDM symbols are transmitted in one subframe for transmitting an ACK / NACK signal. have.

The modulation symbol d (0) is spread to the cyclically shifted sequence r (n, I _cs ). When the one-dimensional spread sequence corresponding to the (i + 1) th OFDM symbol in the subframe is m (i),

{m (0), m (1), ..., m (9)} = {d (0) r (n, I _cs ), d (0) r (n, I _cs ), ..., d (0) r (n, I _cs )}

It can be represented as.

In order to increase the terminal capacity, the one-dimensional spread sequence may be spread using an orthogonal sequence. An orthogonal sequence w _i (k) (i is a sequence index, 0 ≦ k ≦ K−1) having a spreading factor K = 4 uses the following sequence.

TABLE 2

Index (i)	[w i (0), w i (1), w i (2), w i (3)]
0	[+1, +1, +1, +1]
One	[+1, -1, +1, -1]
2	[+1, -1, -1, +1]

An orthogonal sequence w _i (k) (i is a sequence index, 0 ≦ k ≦ K−1) having a spreading coefficient K = 3 uses the following sequence.

TABLE 3

Index (i)	[w i (0), w i (1), w i (2)]
0	[+1, +1, +1]
One	[+1, e j2π / 3 , e j4π / 3 ]
2	[+1, e j4π / 3 , e j2π / 3 ]

Different spreading coefficients may be used for each slot. In 3GPP LTE, the last OFDM symbol in a subframe is used for transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS). In this case, the PUCCH uses a spreading factor K = 4 for the first slot and a spreading factor K = 3 for the second slot.

Thus, given any orthogonal sequence index i, the two-dimensional spread sequence s (0), s (1), ..., s (9) can be expressed as follows.

{s (0), s (1), ..., s (9)} = {w _i (0) m (0), w _i (1) m (1), w _i (2) m (2 ), w _i (3) m (3), w _i (4) m (4), w _i (0) m (5), w _i (1) m (7), w _i (2) m (8 ), w _i (3) m (9)}

The cyclic shift index I _cs may vary according to the slot number n _s in the radio frame and / or the symbol index l in the slot.

For clarity of explanation, when the initial cyclic shift index is set to 0, and the value of the cyclic shift index increases by one for each OFDM symbol, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4,

{s (0), s (1), ..., s (9)} = {w _i (0) d (0) r (n, 0), w _i (1) d (1) r (n , 1), ..., w _i (3) d (9) r (n, 9)}

It can be represented as.

Two-dimensional spread sequences {s (0), s (1), ..., s (9)} are transmitted through corresponding resource blocks after inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) is performed. As a result, the ACK / NACK signal is transmitted on the PUCCH.

The orthogonal sequence index i, the cyclic shift index I _cs, and the resource block index m are parameters necessary for configuring the PUCCH and resources used to distinguish the PUCCH (or terminal). If the number of available cyclic shifts is 12 and the number of available orthogonal sequence indexes is 3, PUCCHs for a total of 36 terminals may be multiplexed into one resource block.

The reference signal for PUCCH format 1 also uses a cyclically shifted sequence generated from the base sequence. Two-dimensional spreading using orthogonal sequences is also applied, but the spreading factor is 3 in the normal CP and the spreading factor is 2 in the extended CP.

In 3GPP LTE, a resource index n ⁽¹⁾ _PUUCH is defined in order for the UE to obtain the three parameters for configuring the PUCCH. Resource index n ⁽¹⁾ _PUUCH = n _CCE + N ⁽¹⁾ _PUUCH , where n _CCE is the corresponding DCI (i.e., downlink resource allocation used for reception of downlink data corresponding to ACK / NACK signal) N ⁽¹⁾ _PUUCH is a parameter that the base station informs the user equipment by using a higher layer message.

As a result, it can be said that the resources used for transmission of the PUCCH for the ACK / NACK signal are implicitly determined depending on the resources of the corresponding PDCCH. This is because the base station indirectly informs the resources used for the PDCCH used for the transmission of the downlink data, without separately informing the resources used for the transmission of the PUCCH for the ACK / NACK signal.

5 shows an example of performing HARQ. The UE monitors the PDCCH and receives the PDCCH 501 including the downlink grant in the nth subframe. The terminal receives a downlink transport block through the PDSCH 502 indicated by the downlink grant.

The UE transmits an ACK / NACK signal for the downlink transport block on the PUCCH 511 in the n + 4th subframe. The ACK / NACK signal becomes an ACK signal when the downlink transport block is successfully decoded, and becomes an NACK signal when decoding of the downlink transport block fails. When the NACK signal is received, the base station may perform retransmission of the downlink transport block until the ACK signal is received or the maximum number of retransmissions.

In order to configure the PUCCH 511, the terminal uses resource allocation of the PDCCH 501. That is, the lowest CCE index used for transmission of the PDCCH 501 becomes n _CCE , and the resource index is determined as n ⁽¹⁾ _PUUCH = n _CCE + N ⁽¹⁾ _PUUCH .

Now, CQI transmission in PUCCH format 2 is described.

The CQI may include a wideband CQI, a subband CQI, a precoding matrix indication (PMI) indicating an index of a precoding matrix, and / or a rank indication (RI) indicating a rank.

FIG. 6 shows PUCCH format 2 in normal CP in 3GPP LTE, and FIG. 7 shows PUCCH format 2 in extended CP in 3GPP LTE. The normal CP and the extended CP differ in the number of OFDM symbols included per slot, so that the positions and the numbers of the reference signals RS are different, and the structure of the CQI is the same.

The encoded CQI is generated by performing channel coding on the CQI payload. In 3GPP LTE, the payload of PUCCH format 2 is 13 bits at maximum, and an encoded CQI of 20 bits is always generated regardless of the size of the payload used.

Ten modulation symbols d (0), ..., d (9) are generated through Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) modulation from the 20-bit encoded CQI. Since there are five OFDM symbols for CQI transmission in one slot in a normal CP or an extended CP, there are a total of 10 OFDM symbols in one subframe for CQI transmission. Accordingly, ten modulation symbols are generated so that one modulation symbol corresponds to one OFDM symbol each.

The modulation symbol corresponding to each OFDM symbol is spread in a cyclically shifted sequence r (n, I _cs ). When a spreading sequence corresponding to the (i + 1) th OFDM symbol in a subframe is s (i),

{s (0), s (1), ..., s (9)} = {d (0) r (n, I _cs ), d (1) r (n, I _cs ), ..., d (9) r (n, I _cs )}

It can be represented as.

The cyclic shift index I _cs may vary according to the slot number n _s in the radio frame and / or the symbol index l in the slot.

For clarity of explanation, when the initial cyclic shift index is set to 0 and the value of the cyclic shift index is increased by one for each OFDM symbol, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7,

{s (0), s (1), ..., s (9)} = {d (0) r (n, 0), d (1) r (n, 1), ..., d ( 9) r (n, 9)}

It can be represented as.

Spreaded sequences {s (0), s (1), ..., s (9)} are transmitted after the IFFT is performed on the corresponding resource block. Thus, the CQI is transmitted on the PUCCH.

In 3GPP LTE PUCCH, the base station distinguishes the PUCCH received from each terminal through different cyclic shifts and / or orthogonal sequences in the same or different resource blocks. For example, the first terminal transmits the CQI based on the first cyclically shifted sequence, and the second terminal transmits the CQI based on the second cyclically shifted sequence, thereby PUCCH of a plurality of terminals in the same resource block. Is multiplexed. If the number of available cyclic shifts is 12, a total of 12 terminals may be multiplexed into one resource block.

In order to configure the PUCCH format 2, the UE needs to know a cyclic shift index I _cs and a resource block index m. In 3GPP LTE, and to acquire a resource index n _PUCCH ⁽²⁾ the base station notifies to the mobile station, a resource index n _PUCCH ⁽²⁾ the base station to the cyclic shift index I _cs and the resource block index m.

Meanwhile, 3GPP LTE supports only a single antenna in uplink transmission. However, in 3GPP LTE-A (advanced), which is an evolution of 3GPP LTE, research is being conducted to increase data rates using multiple antennas and multiple carriers.

One technique for uplink multiple antenna transmission is orthogonal space resource spatial multiplexing (OSRSM).

8 shows an example of OSRSM.

The time resource, frequency resource and / or code resource used for PUCCH transmission is called a PUCCH resource. As described above, the index of the PUCCH resources (referred to as the ACK / NACK resource index or the PUCCH index) required for transmitting the ACK / NACK signal on the PUCCH is orthogonal sequence index i, cyclic shift index I _cs , resource block index m And at least one of the indices for obtaining the three indices. The PUCCH resource may include at least one of an orthogonal sequence, a cyclic shift, a resource block, and a combination thereof.

The first modulation symbol d (0) is transmitted through the first antenna 601 using the first PUCCH resource, and the second modulation symbol d (1) uses the second PUCCH resource to transmit the second antenna 602. Is sent through.

More specifically, assume that modulation symbols d (0) and d (0) represent two ACK / NACK signals. The first orthogonal sequence index i ₁ , the first cyclic shift index I _cs1, and the first resource block index m ₁ are obtained from the first PUCCH resource index to configure the first PUCCH. The second orthogonal sequence index i ₂ , the second cyclic shift index I _cs2, and the second resource block index m ₂ are obtained from the second PUCCH resource index, thereby configuring the second PUCCH. The modulation symbol d (0) is transmitted via the first antenna 601 on the first PUCCH, and the modulation symbol d (1) is transmitted via the second antenna 602 on the second PUCCH.

Only two PUCCH resources and two antennas are described as an example, but there is no limit to the number of antennas applied.

Hereinafter, the antenna may represent a physical antenna, a logical antenna and / or a layer, and may also be referred to as an antenna port.

Bit-level permutation, in which information bits of different control signals are exchanged bit by bit, may be performed. Using QPSK modulation, assume that the first ACK / NACK signal has 2 bits {a0 a1} and the second ACK / NACK signal has 2 bits {b0 b1}. Bit-level permutation is performed before modulation so that d (0) represents {b0 a1} and d (1) may represent {a0 b1}.

Symbol-level permutation may be performed. For example, d (0) + d (1) is transmitted through the first antenna 601 using the first PUCCH resource, and d (0) -d (1) is transmitted using the second PUCCH resource. It may be transmitted through two antennas 602. Alternatively, d (0) -d (1) ^* is transmitted through the first antenna 601 using the first PUCCH resource, and d (0) ^* + d (1) is transmitted using the second PUCCH resource. It may be transmitted through two antennas 602.

d (0) ^* and d (1) ^* denote complex complexes of d (0) and d (1), respectively.

In addition, phase rotation can be applied. For example, d (0) + d (1) exp (j * α) is transmitted through the first antenna 601 using the first PUCCH resource, and d (0) -d (1) exp (j * β may be transmitted through the second antenna 602 using the second PUCCH resource. α and β are phase rotation amounts. α = β may be sufficient, and α ≠ β may be sufficient. Alternatively, d (0) -d (1) ^* exp (j * α) is transmitted through the first antenna 601 using the first PUCCH resource, and d (0) ^* exp (j * β) + d (1) may be transmitted through the second antenna 602 using the second PUCCH resource.

The number of resources allocated to the control signal (ACK / NAK signal or CQI) may be equal to the number of resources used for the reference signal. For example, if n resources allocated for the transmission of n control signals are allocated, n resources may be allocated for the reference signal. Reference signal sequences transmitted using the allocated n resources may be transmitted for each antenna for channel estimation for each antenna.

Now, PUCCH transmission using multi-sequence modulation (MSM) and resource selection is described.

Hereinafter, although resource selection is described as an example in PUCCH format 2 of a normal CP having a maximum payload of 13 bits, the technical spirit of the present invention is not limited to the type of control signal or the PUCCH format.

For clarity, the resource is a cyclic shift and the resource index is a cyclic shift index. However, those skilled in the art can apply the technical idea of the present invention to any resource used to configure a control channel, such as an orthogonal sequence, a resource block, a frequency domain resource, a time domain resource, a code domain resource, or a combination thereof.

As described above, in order to configure PUCCH format 2, one cyclic shift index I _cs and a resource block index m are required. Hereinafter, two cyclic shift indices I _cs1 and I _cs2 are considered as PUCCH resources.

9 shows an example of an MSM in a single antenna.

MSM uses a plurality of resources to increase the size of the payload of the control channel. Since the payload size of the existing PUCCH format 2 is 20 bits, the size of the payload can be increased to 40 bits using two resources (that is, I _cs1 and I _cs2 ).

QPSK modulation of the 40-bit coded bits produces 20 modulation symbols d (0), d (1), ... d (19).

20 cyclically shifted sequences r (n, I _cs ) in each OFDM symbol are also required. The first 10 PUCCH resources I _cs1 may be acquired, and the remaining 10 may be obtained using the second PUCCH resource I _cs2 .

For convenience, r (0), r (1), ..., r (9) respectively correspond to the 10th OFDM symbol from the first OFDM symbol (except the OFDM symbol to which the reference signal is mapped in the subframe) and the first This is called a cyclically shifted sequence obtained using the PUCCH resource I _cs1 . Let r (10), r (11), ..., r (19) respectively correspond to the 10th OFDM symbol in the first OFDM symbol and are cyclically shifted sequences obtained using the second PUCCH resource I _cs1 .

In the first OFDM symbol d (0) r (0) + d (10) r (10) is transmitted through the antenna, and in the second OFDM symbol d (1) r (1) + d (11) r (11) Transmitted through the antenna. The remaining OFDM symbols are shown in FIG. 9.

The d (0), d (1), ..., d (19) may be represented by a mapping rule using a mapping table as shown in Table 4 below.

Table 4

According to the MSM, the payload of the PUCCH can be increased by using a plurality of PUCCH resources.

MSM and OSRSM can be combined. I _cs1 is transmitted by the first antenna and I _cs2 is transmitted by the second antenna.

10 is a block diagram illustrating PUCCH transmission using resource selection. Compared with MSM, resource selection only uses some of the allocated resources for PUCCH transmission. If two resources I _cs1 and I _cs2 are allocated, only one of I _cs1 and I _cs2 is used for PUCCH transmission.

The payload is encoded by encoder 810 to be encoded bits. The encoding scheme is not limited, and well-known schemes such as block coding, convolutional coding, tail-biting convolutional coding (TBCC), and turbo code may be used.

The encoded bits are converted into modulation symbols by applying a mapping rule combining a resource selection and a modulation scheme using a plurality of resources allocated by the mapper 820. If the encoded bit is m bits, a plurality of cyclic shift indexes corresponding to n (n≥1) bits of the m bits and 2 ^(mn) order of shift shift keying corresponding to ^(mn) bits (Or Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) can be applied.

When two cyclic shift indices I _cs1 and I _cs2 are allocated, the modulation symbol may correspond to the first cyclic shift index I _cs1 or the second cyclic shift index I _cs2 . That is, the resources used are selected as they are converted into modulation symbols.

The modulation symbol is spread in a sequence corresponding to the corresponding cyclic shift index to generate a spread sequence. A spread sequence is a sequence in which a modulation symbol is multiplied by a cyclically shifted sequence to have complex valued symbols as elements. The spread sequence is mapped and transmitted to a physical resource by the resource mapper 850. For example, when 0 ≦ n ≦ 11, the spreading sequence s (i) = d (i) r (n, I _cs ) = {d (i) r (0, I _cs ), d (i) r (1, I _cs ), ...., d (i) r (11, I _cs )}, and each element d (i) r (n, I _cs ) of the spreading sequence is a corresponding resource block. Each subcarrier is mapped and transmitted.

Resource selection is to represent bits depending on whether resources are used. 11 shows a representation of bits when two resources are allocated. When I _cs1 and I _cs2 are allocated, an information bit of '0' or '1' may be indicated depending on whether I _cs1 or I _cs2 is turned on or off. Here, the bit "0" is expressed by ON, OFF of the I _cs2 I _cs1, the bit '1', but represents the OFF, ON of the I _cs2 I _cs1, the order of the bit values or resource is for exemplary purposes only.

The following table shows an example of mapping between encoded bits and modulation symbols using resource selection when two cyclic shift indices (I _cs1 and I _cs2 ) are allocated and QPSK mapping is used.

Table 5

12 shows the appearance according to the mapping scheme of Table 5.

The mapping method is designed considering the Euclidian distance. Euclidean distance has the greatest position of the diagonal of the constellation. For example, the Euclidean distance between (1 / sqrt (2), 1 / sqrt (2)) and (-1 / sqrt (2),-1 / sqrt (2)) is the largest. The larger the Euclidean distance, the less likely it is that errors will occur. Thus, the bit with the largest Hamming distance is placed where the Euclidean distance is largest.

Cyclic shift indices I _cs1 , I _cs2 may use symbol level hopping and / or slot level hopping. This means that the cyclic shift index can be used by changing the symbol unit and / or the slot unit based on the allocated cyclic shift index. For example, selected <I _cs2 , I _cs2 , I _cs2 , I _cs2 , I _cs1 > in the above example perform symbol level hopping to perform <I _cs2 (0), I _cs2 (1), I _cs2 (2), I _cs2 (3), I _cs1 (4)> can be used. I _cs2 (m) means a cyclic shift index obtained for the m th OFDM symbol based on I _cs2 .

In the following description, symbol / slot level hopping of a cyclic shift index is omitted for clarity. Therefore, I _cs2 (m) can be expressed _simply as I _cs2 .

Now, more specifically, an example of applying resource selection is described.

Consider the next 14 bits of information bits.

 <1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0>

The next 42 bits of encoded bits may be generated by applying tail-biting convolutional codding (TBCC) defined in 3GPP LTE to 14 bits of information bits.

<0,1,1,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,0 , 0,0,1,1,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,1>

The next 30 bits of rate matched bits may be generated by performing circular buffer rate matching on the 42 bits of encoded bits.

<1,0,1,0,1,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,0,1,1 , 0,1,, 1,1,1>

When the 30-bit rate matched bits are mapped according to Table 5, 10 modulation symbols d (0), ..., d (9) are generated as shown in the following table.

Table 6

By using the modulation symbols, a spreading sequence s (0), ..., s (9) for PUCCH format 2 is as follows.

{s (0), s (1), ..., s (9)} = {d (0) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (1) r (n, I _cs2 ), d (2) r (n, I _cs2 ), d (3) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (4) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (5) r (n, I _cs2 ), d (6) r ( n, I _cs2 ), d (7) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (8) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (9) r (n, I _cs1 )}

The following table shows an example of mapping between encoded bits and modulation symbols using resource selection when two cyclic shift indices (I _cs1 and I _cs2 ) are allocated and 8PSK mapping is used.

TABLE 7

13 shows the appearance according to the mapping method of Table 7.

Consider the next 14 bits of information bits.

<1,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1>

The next 42 bits of encoded bits may be generated by applying TBCC to 14 bits of information bits.

<0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0 , 0,1,0,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,1,1>

The next 40 bits of rate matched bits may be generated by performing cyclic buffer rate matching on the 42 bits of encoded bits.

<1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,0,0,0 , 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,1>

When the 40-bit rate matched bits are mapped according to Table 7, 10 modulation symbols d (0), ..., d (9) are generated as shown in the following table.

Table 8

By using the modulation symbols, a spreading sequence s (0), ..., s (9) for PUCCH format 2 is as follows.

{s (0), s (1), ..., s (9)} = {d (0) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (1) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (2) r (n, I _cs2 ), d (3) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (4) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (5) r (n, I _cs2 ), d (6) r ( n, I _cs1 ), d (7) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (8) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (9) r (n, I _cs1 )}

The MSM and resource selection may be applied to multiple antennas with precoding, which is called a space-code block code (SCBC).

14 is a block diagram of a transmitter implementing a Space-Code Block Code (SCBC).

The transmitter 900 includes an encoder 910, a mapper 920, a spatial processor 930, a first diffuser 940, a second diffuser 950, and two antennas 992, 994. do. The transmitter 900 may be part of a terminal, and parts except for the antennas 992 and 994 may be implemented by a processor.

The encoder 910 receives the information bits and generates encoded bits. The mapper 920 generates the modulation symbols by mapping the encoded bits to constellations. The mapper 920 may perform mapping on a typical QPSK or 8PSK (or higher order), or may generate modulation symbols on the constellation by the mapping rules by the MSM and / or resource selection described above.

The spatial processor 940 processes the SCBC to the modulation symbol, and sends the processed symbols to the first spreader 940 and the second spreader 950. The first spreader 940 and the second spreader 950 spread the processed symbols with a cyclically shifted index by a cyclic shift index. The spread sequence generated by the first spreader 940 is transmitted through the first transmit antenna 992, and the spread sequence generated by the second spreader 950 transmits the second transmit antenna 994. Is sent through.

The following equation shows an example of SCBC.

Equation 3

Each row of the SCBC matrix points to a resource (eg, a cyclic shift index), and each column points to an antenna. s ₁ and s ₂ hereinafter mean modulation symbols, but may also mean a spread sequence.

In the SCBC matrix, the first column covers the first antenna and the second column covers the second antenna. S ₁ in the first column indicates a modulation symbol corresponding to the first cyclic shift index at the first antenna, and -s ₂ ^* in the first column indicates a negative complex conjugate modulation symbol corresponding to the second cyclic shift index at the first antenna. In the second column, s ₁ and s ₂ are reversed, which means that the cyclic shift index at the first antenna and the cyclic shift index at the second antenna are interchanged.

In SCBC, a resource corresponding to a transmission symbol of a first antenna and a resource corresponding to a modulation symbol of a second antenna are exchanged with each other, and a modulation symbol is a complex conjugate or a negative complex conjugate between the first antenna and the second antenna. To be processed.

As shown in the lower part of FIG. 14, it is assumed that the mapper 920 outputs d (0) corresponding to the second cyclic shift index I _cs2 . When applying the SCBC of Equation 3, a spreading sequence of -d (0) ^* r (n, I _cs2 ) is transmitted through the first antenna, and d (0) r (n, The spread sequence of I _cs1 ) is transmitted.

When applying the SCBC of Equation 3, the modulation symbols of Table 8 can be represented by the following spreading sequence for each antenna.

First antenna: {s ¹ (0), s ¹ (1), ..., s ¹ (9)} = {d (0) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (1) r (n, I _cs1 ), -d (2) ^* r (n, I _cs2 ), d (3) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (4) r (n, I _cs1 ), -d (5) ^* r (n , I _cs2 ), d (6) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (7) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (8) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (9) r (n, I _cs1 )}

Second antenna: {s ² (0), s ² (1), ..., s ² (9)} = {d (0) ^* r (n, I _cs2 ), d (1) ^* r (n , I _cs2 ), d (2) r (n, I _cs1 ), d (3) ^* r (n, I _cs2 ), d (4) ^* r (n, I _cs2 ), d (5) r (n , I _cs1 ), d (6) ^* r (n, I _cs2 ), d (7) ^* r (n, I _cs2 ), d (8) ^* r (n, I _cs2 ), d (9) ^* r (n, I _cs2 )}

The following table shows examples of various SCBC matrices.

Table 9

15 shows an example of SCBC application. SCBC (6) of Table 9 was applied to the MSM of FIG.

The following table shows another example of SCBC that can be used. This sets some elements of the SCBC matrix to zero. That is, the SCBC is processed for each of the two allocated resources.

Table 10

SCBC can obtain full spatial diversity gain as an optimal transmit method. However, since two resources need to be paired with each other for two antennas, SCBC is difficult to apply to an odd number of resources.

16 shows an example of an asymmetric multicarrier. In the multi-carrier system, three downlink component carriers (DL CC # 1, DL CC # 2, DL CC # 3) and one uplink carrier (UL CC # 1) are illustrated. The number of DL CCs or UL CCs is not limited.

Assume that the CQI is transmitted for each DL CC. Three PUCCH resources corresponding to each of the DL CCs may be allocated and the CQI may be fed back through multi-sequence transmission like MSM using the three resources.

17 shows transmission of PUCCH format 2 using three resources in an MSM. Let the encoded number of bits of the CQI for the three DL CCs be 60 bits. Using QPSK modulation, 30 modulation symbols d (0) to d (29) can be generated.

When three allocated resources are three cyclic shift indices I _cs1 , I _cs2 , and I _cs3 , for convenience, r (0), r (1), ..., r (9) are respectively 10th in the first OFDM symbol. These are called cyclically shifted sequences corresponding to an OFDM symbol (the OFDM symbol to which the reference signal is mapped in the subframe is excluded) and obtained using the first PUCCH resource I _cs2 . r (10), r (11), ..., r (19) are referred to as cyclically shifted sequences obtained using the second PUCCH resource I _cs2 . r (20), r (21), ..., r (29) are referred to as cyclically shifted sequences obtained using the third PUCCH resource I _cs3 . L

In the first OFDM symbol d (0) r (0) + d (10) r (10) + d (20) r (20) is transmitted through the antenna, and in the second OFDM symbol d (1) r (1) + d (11) r (11) + d (21) r (10) is transmitted through the antenna. The remaining OFDM symbols are shown in FIG. 9.

Each of the plurality of resources may use a different modulation scheme. Two resources may use 8PSK modulation and the other may use QPSK modulation.

18 shows an example of transmission of PUCCH format 2 using three resources in SCBC.

For I _cs1 and I _cs2 , SCBC (6) of Table 9 applies as follows.

Equation 4

For I _cs3 , STBC (Space-Time Block Code) of the same type as in Equation 4 is applied. Each row of the STBC matrix points to an OFDM symbol, and each column points to an antenna.

The reference signal may be transmitted in an OSRT form for channel estimation for each antenna. In case of two antennas, only two of three resources are used to configure a reference signal.

When k + 1 (k is an even number) resource, SCBC is applied to k resources and cyclic delay diversity (CDD), precoding vector switching (PVS), and / or simple Other transmit diversity techniques, such as simple repetition, can be applied. The CCD delay value in symbol units or subframe units or the precoding vector value of PVS may be predefined or the base station may inform the UE.

19 shows another example of transmission of PUCCH format 2 using three resources in SCBC. In comparison with the embodiment of FIG. 18, simple repetition is applied to I _cs3 . That is, the same spreading sequence is transmitted through the first antenna and the second antenna for I _cs3 .

20 shows another example of transmission of PUCCH format 2 using three resources in SCBC. In comparison with the embodiment of FIG. 18, PVS is applied to I _cs3 . P (0) = [1 1] ^T and p (1) = [1 −1] ^T are used as the precoding vectors. P (0) is used for the first antenna and p (1) is used for the second antenna.

Precoding vectors are exemplary only, and other precoding vectors may be used.

Now, the application of the Space-Frequency Block Code (SFBC) in the existing PUCCH and PUSCH.

FIG. 21 shows 1-DFT diffusion of length 12. FIG.

The 12 modulation symbols d (0), d (1), ..., d (11) are DFT spread to generate transmission symbols S ₀ , S ₁ , ..., S ₁₁ . Then, the 12 modulation symbols d (12), d (13 ), ..., d (23) is diffused DFT transmitted symbols S _12, S _13, ..., the S ₂₃ is generated.

22 shows an example in which SFBC is applied to a PUCCH.

Use an SFBC matrix such as

Equation 5

Each row of the SFBC matrix points to a frequency (eg, subcarrier), and each column points to an antenna.

S _i hereinafter means a DFT spread symbol, but may be a modulation symbol before DFT spread or may mean a spread sequence.

When using QPSK modulation, the CM value of the first antenna 901 is about 1.22 dB and the CM value of the second antenna 902 is about 1.90 dB. Since the CM value of the second antenna 902 is larger, the coverage of the terminal is limited by the CM value of the second antenna 902. In addition, when considering the antenna power imbalance due to the hand grip of the terminal, the coverage may be further reduced.

Therefore, there is a need for a method for solving the power imbalance between antennas when applying SFBC.

Now, the switching of spatial processing will be described. In order to solve the power imbalance between antennas, we propose switching of spatial processing in symbol / slot / subframe units.

23 shows an example of the proposed switched SFBC. The switched SFBC is to switch the SFBC in symbol units.

In the example of FIG. 23, the transmission symbols are transmitted through a plurality of antennas after performing SFBC using the SFBC matrix of Equation 5 in the first OFDM symbol. In the second OFDM symbol, the transmission symbols are transmitted through a plurality of antennas after performing an SFBC using an SFBC matrix in which at least one column or at least one row is switched in the SFBC matrix of Equation 5.

For example, the first column and the second column may be switched in the SFBC matrix of Equation 5, and then SFBC may be performed using an SFBC matrix as shown in Equation 5 below.

Equation 6

In the third OFDM symbol, SFBC is again performed using the SFBC matrix of Equation 5. Therefore, different SFBCs are performed in symbol units.

Spatial processing is performed using different spatial processing matrices (eg, SFBC) in an OFDM symbol and a subsequent OFDM symbol. Thus, the transmit power of the antennas can be averaged. In the example of FIG. 23, the CM value of each antenna is about 1.5 dB. Thus, the unbalanced transmission power is averaged.

The switched spatial processing may not be applied to the reference signal for channel estimation for each antenna.

In addition to the SFBC matrix of Equation 5, the SFBC may use at least one of the SFBC matrices shown in the following table.

Table 11

Although the embodiment of FIG. 23 shows switching of SFBC in PUCCH, the proposed invention can be applied to PUSCH, which is a data channel. For application in the PUSCH, the encoded bits are modulated to generate a plurality of modulation symbols, and the plurality of modulation symbols are spread Fourier transform (DFT). SFBC switching can be performed either before the DFT or after the DFT. In particular, switching performed before the DFT may be referred to as STBC switching.

The switching of spatial processing may be performed not only in symbol units but also in slot units, subframe units, and / or radio frame units.

Even when using four or more antennas, the proposed invention can be easily extended. For example, the antennas may be divided into groups and switching may be performed in groups.

24 is an example of applying the proposed spatial processing switching to the OSRSM of FIG. In FIG. 9, d (0), d (1), ..., d (9) are modulation symbols transmitted through the first antenna, and d (10), d (11), ..., d (19). Are modulation symbols transmitted via the second antenna. The modulation symbols corresponding to the first and second antennas are exchanged with each other in OFDM symbol units.

Although cyclically shifted sequences for switched modulation symbols are shown to be exchanged together, only modulation symbols can be switched.

Alternatively, modulation symbols may not be switched, only switching cyclically shifted sequences.

FIG. 25 illustrates an example of applying the proposed switching to the SCBC of FIG. 15. Switching SCBC in symbol units.

In the first OFDM symbol, SCBC is performed using the SCBC matrix (6) of Table 9 and then transmitted through a plurality of antennas.

In the second OFDM symbol, modulation symbols are switched over at least one column in the SCBC matrix, and then transmitted through a plurality of antennas after performing SCBC using the SCBC matrix as shown in the following equation.

Equation 7

Different SCBCs may be performed in the OFDM symbol and the subsequent OFDM symbol to average the power imbalance between antennas.

The SCBC matrix is only an example, and at least one of the SCBC matrices shown in Table 9 may be used.

FIG. 26 is an example of applying the proposed switching to the embodiment of FIG. 18. As described above, in the embodiment of FIG. 19, three resources are allocated and SCBC and STBC are mixed. Switch at least one row (or column) of the SCBC matrix in an OFDM symbol and subsequent OFDM symbols.

Although STBC switching is not performed, not only SCBC switching but also STBC switching may be performed.

27 and 28 are graphs showing the effect of the present invention.

27 shows the PUSCH structure of the existing 3GPP LTE, the SFBC and the CM value of the proposed invention (denoted as 'SwitchedSFBC'). The CM value of PUSCH of 3GPP LTE is about 1.57 dB at 99.9%, the CM value of SFBC is about 2.23 dB, and the CM value of the proposed invention is about 1.91 dB. Compared with the conventional SFBC, the average CM per antenna is improved.

FIG. 28 shows the PUSCH structure of the existing 3GPP LTE, the STBC and the CM values of the proposed invention (denoted 'SwitchedSFBC'). The proposed invention using three resources uses the structure of FIG. The CM value of PUSCH of 3GPP LTE is about 1.57 dB, the CM value of STBC is about 1.78 dB, and the CM value of the proposed invention is about 1.64 dB. It shows that the CM is improved compared to the existing STBC.

29 is a block diagram illustrating a transmitter in which an embodiment of the present invention is implemented. In uplink, the transmitter may be part of the terminal. In downlink, the transmitter may be part of a base station.

The transmitter 1100 includes an encoder 1110, a mapper 1120, and a signal processor 1130.

The encoder 1110 encodes the information bits to generate encoded bits.

The mapper 1120 generates modulation symbols by mapping encoded bits into constellations based on the proposed resource selection scheme. The mapper 1120 may perform modulation on a general constellation, and may perform modulation using a mapping rule to which MSM and / or resource selection is applied.

The signal processor 1130 processes the modulation symbol and transmits a radio signal. The signal processor 1130 may implement the above-described STBC, SFBC, SCBC and OSRSM. As shown in the embodiments of FIGS. 23 to 26, the signal processor 1130 may perform switching of spatial processing by at least one of STBC, SFBC, SCBC, and OSRSM.

30 is a block diagram showing a terminal implemented embodiment of the present invention.

The terminal 1200 includes a processor 1210, a memory 1220, a display unit 1230, and an RF unit 1240. The RF unit 1240 is connected to the processor 1210 and transmits and / or receives a radio signal. The memory 1220 is connected to the processor 1210 and stores information necessary for the operation of the processor 1210. The display unit 1230 displays various information of the terminal 1200 and may use well-known elements such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED).

The processor 1210 may implement a physical layer based on the 3GPP LTE / LTE-A standard, and implement the proposed method. The processor 1210 may implement the encoder 1110, the mapper 1120, and the signal processor 1130.

The processor 1210 may include an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), another chipset, a logic circuit, and / or a data processing device. The memory 1220 may include read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), flash memory, memory card, storage medium, and / or other storage device. The RF unit 1240 may include a baseband circuit for processing a radio signal. When the embodiment is implemented in software, the above-described technique may be implemented as a module (process, function, etc.) for performing the above-described function. The module may be stored in the memory 1220 and executed by the processor 1210. The memory 1220 may be inside or outside the processor 1210 and may be connected to the processor 1210 by various well-known means.

We now describe a transmission scheme in which embodiments of the present invention may be implemented.

The subblock is a resource unit for mapping time domain symbols and / or frequency domain symbols to radio resources, and may include, for example, 12 subcarriers. Each subblock may or may not be adjacent to each other. The amount (or size) of resources included in each subblock may be all the same or may be different. For example, subblock # 1 may include 12 subcarriers, but subblock # 2 may include 24 subcarriers. The subblock may be called another name such as a cluster, a resource block, a subchannel, and the like. Alternatively, one or more subblocks may correspond to one component carrier. Component carriers are defined by center frequency and bandwidth.

31 is a block diagram illustrating a signal processing apparatus for performing SC-FDMA. The transmission scheme in which IFFT is performed after DFT spreading is called SC-FDMA. SC-FDMA is also called DFT-s (DFT-sread) OFDM.

The signal processing apparatus 2110 includes a discrete fourier transform (DFT) unit 2111, a subcarrier mapper 2112, an inverse fast fourier transform (IFFT) unit 2113, and a CP insertion unit 2114. The DFT unit 2111 performs DFT on the complex-valued symbols to be output and outputs the DFT symbols. Subcarrier mapper 2112 maps the DFT symbols to each subcarrier in the frequency domain. The IFFT unit 2113 performs an IFFT on the symbols mapped in the frequency domain and outputs a time domain signal. The CP inserter 2114 inserts a CP into the time domain signal. The time domain signal in which the CP is inserted becomes an OFDM symbol. If the used sequence is a frequency-domain sequence that has already been DFT spread, IFFT may be performed immediately without performing a DFT separately.

32 shows an example of subcarrier mapping. DFT symbols output from the DFT unit are mapped to contiguous subcarriers in the frequency domain. This is called localized mapping.

33 shows another example of subcarrier mapping. The DFT symbols output from the DFT unit are mapped to non-contiguous subcarriers. The DFT symbols may be mapped to subcarriers distributed at equal intervals in the frequency domain. This is called distributed mapping.

34 is a block diagram illustrating a signal processing apparatus for performing clustered SC-FDMA. The manner in which the DFT symbols are divided and processed in units of subblocks is referred to as clustered SC-FDMA or clustered DFT-s OFDM.

The signal processing apparatus 2210 includes a DFT unit 2211, a subcarrier mapper 2212, an IFFT unit 2213, and a CP insertion unit 2214.

The DFT symbols output from the DFT unit 2211 are divided into N subblocks (N is a natural number). Herein, N subblocks may be represented by subblock # 1, subblock # 2, ..., subblock #N. The subcarrier mapper 2212 maps N subblocks to subcarriers in a frequency domain in units of subblocks. The subcarrier mapper 2212 may perform local mapping or distributed mapping on a subblock basis. The IFFT unit 2213 outputs a time domain signal by performing IFFT on the subblocks mapped in the frequency domain. The CP insertion unit 2214 inserts a CP into the time domain signal.

The signal processing device 2210 may support a single carrier or a multi-carrier. When only a single carrier is supported, all N subblocks correspond to one carrier. When supporting multiple carriers, at least one subblock of N subblocks may correspond to each carrier.

35 is a block diagram illustrating another example of a signal processing apparatus.

The signal processing apparatus 2310 includes a DFT unit 2311, a subcarrier mapper 2312, a plurality of IFFT units 2313-1, 2313-2,..., 2313 -N, and a CP insertion unit 2214. (N is a natural number).

The DFT symbols output from the DFT unit 2311 are divided into N subblocks. The subcarrier mapper 2312 maps N subblocks to subcarriers in a frequency domain in units of subblocks. The subcarrier mapper 2312 may perform local mapping or distributed mapping on a subblock basis. IFFT is performed independently for each subblock mapped in the frequency domain. The CP insertion unit 2314 inserts a CP into the time domain signal. The nth IFFT unit 2333-n performs an IFFT on subblock #n and outputs an nth time domain signal (n = 1, 2, .., N). The n th time domain signal is multiplied by an n th carrier signal fn to generate an n th radio signal. After the N radio signals generated from the N subblocks are added, a CP is inserted by the CP inserter 2314.

Each subblock may correspond to each component carrier. Each subblock may correspond to component carriers adjacent to each other or may correspond to component carriers not adjacent to each other.

36 is a block diagram illustrating another example of a signal processing apparatus.

The signal processing unit 2410 includes a code block divider 2411, a chunk divider 2412, a plurality of channel coding units 2413-1,..., 2413 -N, and a plurality of modulators 2444-. 1, ..., 2414-N), a plurality of DFT units 2415-1, ..., 2425-N, a plurality of subcarrier mappers 2416-1, ..., 2241-N, a plurality of IFFTs Section 2417-1, ..., 2417-N and CP insertion section 2418 (N is a natural number). Here, N may be the number of multicarriers used by the multicarrier transmitter.

The code block divider 2411 divides a transport block into a plurality of code blocks. The chunk divider 2412 divides the code block into a plurality of chunks. Here, the code block may be referred to as data transmitted from the multicarrier transmitter, and the chunk may be referred to as a data segment transmitted through one carrier of the multicarrier. DFT is performed in chunks. A transmission scheme in which DFT is performed in chunks is referred to as chunk specific DFT-s OFDM or Nx SC-FDMA. This may be used in contiguous carrier assignment or non-adjacent carrier assignment. The divided chunks become complex symbols through each of the plurality of channel coding units 2413-1,..., 4241 -N and the plurality of modulators 2414-1,. The complex symbols include a plurality of DFT units 2415-1,..., 2241 -N, respectively, a plurality of subcarrier mappers 2416-1,..., 2241 -N, and a plurality of IFFT units 2417-1. , ..., 2417-N), and then add to each other at the CP insertion unit 2418.

The OFDM symbol may be a time domain symbol applied to any multiple access scheme, such as OFDMA, SC-FDMA, DFT-s OFDM, clustered DFT-s OFDM, and / or chunk-specific DFT-s OFDM, and is necessarily limited to a specific multiple access scheme. It does not mean that.

In the exemplary system described above, the methods are described based on a flowchart as a series of steps or blocks, but the invention is not limited to the order of steps, and certain steps may occur in a different order or concurrently with other steps than those described above. Can be. In addition, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the steps shown in the flowcharts are not exclusive and that other steps may be included or one or more steps in the flowcharts may be deleted without affecting the scope of the present invention.

Claims (12)

1. In the uplink transmission method in a multi-antenna system,

   Transmitting the plurality of first transmission symbols through the plurality of antennas using first spatial processing; And

   Transmitting to the plurality of second transmission symbols via the plurality of antennas using second spatial processing,

   The spatial processing matrix used for the second spatial processing is configured by switching at least one row or at least one column of the first spatial processing matrix used for the first spatial processing.
2. The method of claim 1,

   The first and second spatial processing is a Space-Frequency Block Code (SFBC), and the first and second spatial processing matrix is an SFBC matrix.
3. The method of claim 1,

   The first and second spatial processing is a space-code block code (SCBC), the first and second spatial processing matrix is characterized in that the SCBC matrix.
4. The method of claim 1,

   Modulating the encoded bits to generate a plurality of modulation symbols,

   And the plurality of first transmission symbols and the plurality of second transmission symbols are the plurality of modulation symbols.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the plurality of first transmission symbols and the plurality of second transmission symbols are transmitted on a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH).
6. The method of claim 1,

   Modulating the encoded bits to produce a plurality of modulation symbols; And

   And spreading the plurality of modulation symbols to generate the plurality of first transmission symbols and the plurality of second transmission symbols.
7. The uplink transmission method according to claim 6, wherein the plurality of first transmission symbols and the plurality of second transmission symbols are independently DFTed.
8. The method of claim 6, wherein the plurality of first transmission symbols and the plurality of second transmission symbols are transmitted on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH).
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of first transmission symbols and the plurality of second transmission symbols are transmitted in different orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols.
10. RF unit for transmitting and receiving a radio signal; And

    Including a processor connected to the RF unit, wherein the processor

    Process the plurality of first transmission symbols using first spatial processing; And

    Process a plurality of second transmission symbols using second spatial processing,

    And a second spatial processing matrix used for the second spatial processing is configured by switching at least one row or at least one column of the first spatial processing matrix used for the first spatial processing.
11. The terminal of claim 10, wherein the plurality of first transmission symbols and the plurality of second transmission symbols are transmitted on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).
12. The terminal of claim 10, wherein the plurality of first transmission symbols and the plurality of second transmission symbols are transmitted on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH).

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